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Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
Other
“When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.”
Other
“Huge as the snakes that armed the Giants when they stormed heaven, or as the hydra that wearied Hercules by the waters of Lerna, or as Juno's snake that guarded the boughs with golden foliage.”
Quantis armati caelum petiere Gigantes
anguibus, aut quantus Lernae lassavit in undis
Amphitryoniaden serpens, qualisque comantis
auro servauit ramos Junonius anguis.
Book VI, lines 181–184
Punica
“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
“If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)